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Scientists find new population of polar bears in sea-ice free region
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
But in a new study, scientists have identified an isolated subpopulation of polar bears in Southeast Greenland that instead make use of freshwater ice pouring i...
Canada, Denmark settle friendly 'war' over Arctic island
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
The two sides were to formally announce Tuesday a deal to split Hans Island and effectively create the first land border between Canada and Europe at a signing ...
UAF scientists find new indicators of Alaska permafrost thawing
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
The scientists said the spread of taliks - volumes of unfrozen ground within areas of permafrost - has major implications for the movement of carbon among organ...
Present Antarctic deglaciation may be unprecedented in last 5,000 years
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
Over the past few decades, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has retreated and thinned at accelerated rates. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers that extend deep i...
Antarctic glaciers losing ice at fastest rate for 5,500 years, finds study
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
Antarctica is covered by two huge ice masses: the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets, which feed many individual glaciers. Because of the warming climate, the W...
Cracking the case of Arctic sea ice breakup
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
Warming climate and rising sea levels endanger the nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population living in coastal areas, the billions of people who depend on the oc...
The Arctic's tricky quest for sustainable tourism
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
The Svalbard archipelago, located 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) from the North Pole and reachable by commercial airline flights, offers visitors vast expanses of...
Siberian tundra could virtually disappear by mid-millennium
May 29, 2022 (SPX)
Their conclusion: only consistent climate protection measures will allow roughly 30 percent of the Siberian tundra to survive to mid-millennium. In all other, l...
Scientists shine new light on role of Earth's orbit in the fate of ancient ice sheets
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
Scientists have long been aware that the waxing and waning of massive Northern Hemisphere ice sheets results from changes in the geometry of Earth's orbit aroun...
Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unravelled
May 26, 2022 (ESA)
The never-before-seen rainfall, on 14 August 2021, made Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unravelleds around the world. The upper-most parts of Greenland's ...
Sea ice can control Antarctic ice sheet stability, new research finds
May 16, 2022 (SPX)
Ice shelves - floating sections of ice which are attached to land-based ice sheets - serve the vital purpose of buttressing against the uncontrolled release of ...
Major study to examine beavers' Arctic impact
May 16, 2022 (SPX)
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) has been expanding its range in recent decades and this important research aims to understand the effects that bea...
Newly discovered lake may hold secret to Antarctic ice sheet's rise and fall
May 10, 2022 (SPX)
Revealed by heavily instrumented polar research aircraft, Lake Snow Eagle is covered by 2 miles of ice and lies in a mile-deep canyon in the highlands of Antarc...
Are new carbon sinks appearing in the Arctic?
May 10, 2022 (SPX)
The research group headed by researcher Minna Valiranta from the University of Helsinki has given the name 'proto-peat' to such organic soil accumulations, whic...
First rays of sunlight for Sunrise III at the Arctic Circle
May 10, 2022 (SPX)
In this way, processes in the chromosphere, the highly dynamic layer between the visible surface and the outer atmosphere of the Sun, will become visible more p...
In sediments below Antarctic ice, scientists discover a giant groundwater system
May 06, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a team has for the first time mapped a huge, actively circulating groundwater system in deep sediments in West Antarctica. They say such systems, probably ...
Carbon, climate change and ocean anoxia in an ancient icehouse world
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
"It was one of the fastest warming events in Earth's history," said Isabel Montanez, distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences a...
GomSpace to supply mission control system for KSAT Arctic satellites
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
Today, GomSpace signed a contract to develop, deliver and support the Mission Control System that KSAT will use to operate the Arctic Weather Satellite mission....
Look! A polar bear meanders way down south in Canada
Apr 30, 2022 (AFP)
The bear -- whose species has become a symbol of the dangers of global warming -- was seen in the morning hours in Madeleine-Centre in the Gaspesia region, a pe...
Satellite data improves model's interpretation of snowfall albedo simulations for Tibet
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
However, modern weather and climate models that focus on land surfaces have struggled to parametrize albedo, or represent albedo effects as a computer algorithm...
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